“There is physical evidence of the body's response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good.” FeelsBodyBrainEvidenceResponseFeel GoodDoing GoodEndorphins Author:Evelyn Lauder
“The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10(14) neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.” HumansBrainConsciousnessWonderfulEvidenceConnectionsMachinesBusyDuesArchitectureElegant Author:Carl Sagan
“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.” BrainWorryStupidWasteEvidenceIllControlledWasting TimeCalisthenics Author:Arnold Bennett
“When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.” KnowsPainProcessDealsBrainCompassionEvolutionEvidenceSpeciesSpeedFasterSecondsPhysical PainMental Pain Author:Antonio Damasio
“A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In the face of such evidence, any argument to the contrary based on the claim that fish 'do not have the right sort of brain' can no longer be called scientific. It is just obstinate.” FeelsMatterFeelingsPainFacesPowerfulBrainCasesSupportEvidenceArgumentClaimsFishesContraryPortfoliosObstinatePhysiological Book:Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden Source: Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden
“I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I base what I'm saying not on any empirical evidence. I think it's very possible that when you're dying, these circuits open up, which would explain this whole white-light phenomena - when people clinically die and they see their relatives and stuff and say, "Hello, it's great to see you."” PeopleThinkingBelieveWholeLightDiesStuffProcessWhiteBrainDyingEvidenceHelloEmergenciesCircuitsWhite LightEmpirical Evidence Author:Stephen King
“I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.” WritingTryingYearsHeartPersonsEyeMotivationBrainSubjectsListeningEvidenceLettersBridgesLeapInteriorsIntuitiveThrough The EyesFactualMonologuesChasmsHeart And Brain Author:Irving Stone
“To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good.” NeedsChallengesBrainEvidenceConnectionsUnusualRepetitionNoveltyStimulus Author:Robert Winston
“Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright. My own private theory is that stammerers have so many ideas swirling around their brains at once that they can't get them all out, though I haven't found any scientific evidence to back that up.” ThinkingIdeasDifferentFoundMy OwnBrainTroubleHavensTheoryEvidenceLettersSentencesStutteringScientific EvidenceStammering Author:Bob Newhart
“...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence.” PeopleIfsWayWantBelieveIdeasMatterCharacterMightSpiritualNationsEasyMemoriesBrainIssuesFocusPersonalityOughtEvidenceWeightSellsNotionAfterlifeCompellingSkepticismTestimonyAnticipate Author:Carl Sagan
“Yes, all of life is sacred, including plants; and yes, there is research that demonstrates that plants have feelings - they feel it when their leaves or stems are ripped - and there is scientific evidence that while plants do not have brains and nervous systems like animals, they nevertheless actively work to ensure their survival - they want to live, thrive, reproduce, evolve.” WantFeelsFeelingsLife IsAnimalBrainSurvivalResearchEvidenceSacredPlantIncludingNervousEvolveThriveNeverthelessStemRippedNervous SystemScientific Evidence Author:Sharon Gannon
“Salander was afraid of no-one and nothing. She realized that she lacked the necessary imagination - and that was evidence enough that there was something wrong with her brain.” EnoughImaginationBrainEvidence Author:Steig Larsson
“The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.” ShouldHumansChristianDifferencesCommonBrainSupportGroupsShareActivityIntellectualEvidenceLettersShould HaveSlaveCharityCeaseSatanDemonLiarsFraudDogmaMinorsCultDecencyZealPresentingAgnosticismFundamentalistContentionScoundrelsCharlatansExorcism Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that this organ contains in some recorded form the basis of one's whole conscious life. It contains the record of all our aims and ambitions and is essential for the experience of all pleasures and pains, all loves and hates.” MindWholePainFormUsedHateOrderPleasureBrainRecordsBearsEssentialsAmbitionConsciousEvidenceBasesAimOrgansLove And HatePain And Pleasure Book:Philosophy and the brain Source: Philosophy and the brain
“Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result of ignorance. We come to exist through a divine act. That divine guidance is a theme throughout our life; at our death the brain goes, but that divine guidance and love continues. Each of us is a unique, conscious being, a divine creation. It is the religious view. It is the only view consistent with all the evidence.” MindHumansReligiousResultsViewsBrainCreativeOur LivesAtheismCreationIgnoranceDivineConflictUniqueConsciousEvidenceAspectAnd LoveAppearanceGuidanceThemeConsistentHuman MindScience And ReligionImaginativeDivine GuidanceReligious Views Author:John Eccles
“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.” IfsMenTimeBrainWorryStupidWasteEvidenceMen And WomenIllStupidityControlledWasting TimeFoolishnessCalisthenics Author:Arnold Bennett
“Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.” ThinkingShouldBodyCausesSleepBrainDutyHabitEvidenceFunctionRadioWideAwakePhenomenonTime Of DayWide Awake Author:Evan Davis